AMD Radeon HD 6870

The AMD Radeon HD 6870 is a desktop graphics card that was released on 2010. It is based on the Barts / RV940 chip and was manufactured in 40nm. The card offers 224 5D (1120) shader at 900 MHz and a 256 Bit GDDR5 graphics memory running at 2100 MHz (effective). Compared to laptop graphics card, the AMD Radeon HD 6990M uses the same chip with 1120 shaders but with a lower core clock of 715 MHz and memory clock of 1800 MHz.

Manufacturer

AMD

Radeon HD 6800 Series

Radeon HD 6870

1120 @ 900 MHz

256 Bit @ 1050 MHz

Codename

RV940 Barts

Architecture

Terascale 2

Pipelines

1120 - unified

Core Speed *

900 MHz

Memory Speed *

1050 MHz

Memory Bus Width

256 Bit

Memory Type

GDDR5

Max. Amount of Memory

1024 MB

Shared Memory

no

DirectX

DirectX 11, Shader 5.0

Power Consumption

151 Watt

Transistors

1700 Million

technology

40 nm

Date of Announcement

22.10.2010

* The specified clock rates are only guidelines for the manufacturer and can be altered by them.

- Range of benchmark values for this graphics card - Average benchmark values for this graphics card

Game Benchmarks

The following benchmarks stem from our benchmarks of review laptops. The performance depends on the used graphics memory, clock rate, processor, system settings, drivers, and operating systems. So the results don't have to be representative for all laptops with this GPU. For detailled information on the benchmark results, click on the fps number.